In an ever-changing world, education must adapt to prepare children for the challenges of the 21st century. In a society where calculators and digital technologies are ubiquitous, mathematics ...

What's the News: Most of us need everyone to stop talking when we perform mental math. But for children trained to do math visually with a "mental abacus," verbal disturbances roll off their backs, ...

A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style Chinese abacus (suan pan). Photograph by Forrest M. Mims IIIFORREST M MIMS 111 Photo Caption: A Japanese abacus (soroban) held over an older style ...

A teenager who once struggled with simple sums is now a maths whizz after using an ancient learning system. Dhruv Maheshwari, 16, was struggling at school when his mum started to tutor him using an ...

Vinaya Kulkarni said she believes she has the program that will help grade-school age children gain confidence and competence in arithmetic. Kulkarni is the founder and head teacher of Abacus West, ...

Schoolkids should be taught using an old-fashioned abacus if the Government decides to scrap times-tables tests, specialists have said. According to reports, the Labour party could bin traditional ...

PUNE: Call it the calculator of the Jurassic era. But for ten-year-old Manasvi Wadhwa and her eight-yearold friend Tapaswini Ghodke, an abacus is just the right instrument to do a whole lot of complex ...

Discovery Primary School learner Amber Stellenberg proved herself to be a maths prodigy when she obtained second place in the level 10 Abacus Soroban National competition in Cape Town. The Abacus ...

Apple’s abacus emoji is wrong. Or, technically not “wrong” per se, in that you can probably still use it do math if you actually know how to use an abacus (I do not). But still, that ever useful emoji ...